AROUND the ISLAND

Clearly, "our" island is not very large. There are some who could get island fever quite easily. But think about it. The world we come from where we spend the rest of our year...how big is it really? We spend so much of our time in our own homes doing those family things like playing with the kids, having dinner, doing housekeeping, making a few repairs, and watching TV. What difference does it make where you are. The only ZEN you find at the top of a mountain is the ZEN you bring there. Then why change locations at all? I think it comes down to that old migratory instinct that many animals including humans have. We are probably hard wired for it too in our genetics. Follow the sun, or in the case of Florida...run away from the sun.

We have cooler days and nights up here. This is not so important in May but come summer, that all important fact of life... the temperature of our environment, that thing that causes birds to fly south for the winter or bears to hibernate, is so comfortable here. Last summer we had a couple of hot weeks in the 90s and everyone ran out to buy an air conditioner. It did not last long like it would in Florida where "frying an egg on the sidewalk" is a real possibility. So as the expression "How's the weather?" goes, "It's great." And like in the poem "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, AND IT HAS MADE ALL THE DIFFERENCE." Just like the weather. If there is one factor that changes peoples outlook, above all others, it is this one that is in sync with our biological makeup.